Weapons Quotes

• It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • War
  • Courage
  • Weapons

• The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  

  Bert Holldobler
  • Weapons
  • Foreign Policy
  • Neighboring

• There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.

  

  Zhuge Liang
  • Mind
  • Prepared
  • Greater

• We were certainly worried about the deployment of chemical weapons across Syria by all parties, frankly, by the Islamic State as well. So it was a concern.

  

  Andrew Exum
  • Weapons
  • Concern
  • Deployment

• I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Democracy
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

  

  Bernard C. Parks
  • United States
  • Weapons
  • Collection

• I am one of a team of Iraqi weapons inspectors currently travelling through the United Kingdom under very difficult conditions searching for weapons of mass distraction.

  

  Attila the Stockbroker
  • Team
  • Weapons
  • Searching

• We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons.

  

  Mohammed Aldouri
  • Weapons
  • Chemical
  • Biological

• Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

  

  Carolyn Hart
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Depends

• This is not an approach that would be tolerated in other forms of protest. Anti-nuclear activists may blockade power stations or weapons facilities. Even they would regard it as irresponsible to try to sabotage them, aiming to cause maximum damage, in the expectation that the resulting debate will outweigh the harm done.

  

  Edward Lucas
  • Damage
  • Harm
  • Protest

• I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Weapons
  • Trees
  • Gentlehobbits

• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Used
  • Capitalism
  • Helpful

• What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Accepting
  • Embrace
  • Weapons

• In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Destruction
  • Weapons
  • Stupidity

• Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

  

  George Takei
  • Weapons
  • Access
  • Arguments

• I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Existence

• The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Patience

• Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Failure
  • Weapons
  • Destroying

• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  

  Mordechai Vanunu
  • Numbers
  • Amount
  • Nuclear

• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  

  David Corn
  • Important
  • Choices
  • Critical

• Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Words
  • Write
  • Photographs

• Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Trying
  • War
  • Fool

• My only two weapons: time and silence.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Time
  • Silence
  • Weapons

• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Choice
  • Results
  • Mediocre

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